ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,531, issued on May 20, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Gain variation compensation using temperature attenuator" was invented by Mohammad Ghadiri Sadrabadi (San Diego) and Tumay Kanar (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for signal attenuation is described. In an example, an attenuator can be configured to perform attenuation of signals for an integrated circuit. The attenuator can vary the attenuation with an ambient temperature. The attenuator can further adjust the attenuation based on a control signal applied to the attenuator. The control signal can be bas...